Petroleum Based Lubricants

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The term mineral oil is used in two different senses: for crude oil (petroleum) as naturally occurring in geological formations, and for a refined by-product of the distillation of petroleum. Crude oil or petroleum is a liquid mixture of various hydrocarbons that has been formed by natural processes. In the late 1800s, the term mineral oil or rock oil was first used to describe the petroleum hydrocarbons and associated products that were produced from wells that tapped underground reservoirs. The term differentiated petroleum hydrocarbons produced from underground sources from other common oil sources at the time, such as vegetable oils or whale oil. In today's petroleum exploration and production (EPurchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publishera#39;s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge.

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Petroleum Based Lubricants

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Books Llc

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Books LLC, Wiki Series - 2010-09

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